بخش 207 - جواب طعنه‌زننده در مثنوی از قصور فهم خود

O railing cur, you are bow-wowing and practising evasion for the purpose of railing at the Qur’an.

This is not such a lion that you will save your life from it or carry off your faith (secure) from the claws of its vengeance.

The Qur’an is proclaiming till the Resurrection- “O people devoted to ignorance,

Who were deeming me to be an idle tale and were sowing the seed of raillery and infidelity,

(Now) ye yourselves have seen (the truth of) what ye were scoffing at, (namely), that ye were perishable and idle tale.

I am the Word of God and subsistent through the (Divine) Essence; I am the Food of the soul of the soul. And (I am) the Jacinth of purity.

I am the Sunlight that hath fallen upon you, but I have not become separate from the Sun.

Lo, I am the Fountain of the Water of Life, that I may deliver the lovers (of God) from death.

If your greed had not raised such a stench, God would have poured a draught (of that Water) on your graves.”

Nay; I will accept the rede and counsel of the Sage (of Ghazna): I will not let my heart be sickened (wounded) by every taunt.